2B Guided Reading Activity "Problems and Solutions in Research"

in everyday life, how do we convey our expectations to others?

Body language cues. For longer answer: In everyday life, we consciously or unconsciously tip off people as to what our expectations of them are. We give them cues. such as nodding and raising our eyebrows. People pick up on those cues and act as expected.

What criticisms were raised about Milgram's experiment?

Ethics of having participants placed in a position of harming others.

Why was Stanley Milgram's experiment a single-blind Experiment?

Participants did not know the shock wasn't real, but Miligram did.

To study the effectiveness of a drug, one group of participants receives the drug. what does the other group receive?

Placebo

what do researchers call changes in a patient's physical condition due to the patient's knowledge or perception about a treatment?

Placebo Effect.

The woman who believed Friday the 13th was a hex expected to die on the 13th and acted upon that expectation. What explains her behavior?

Self-fulfilling Prophecy

What are the two types of techniques that can be used to avoid influencing the participants in an experiment?

Single and double-blind experiments

What does a double-blind experiment eliminate?

The possibility of researcher bias For longer answer: That the researcher will unconsciously find what she expects to find about the effects of the drug. The researcher remains unbiased.

Why did large numbers of the experimental group report benefits from new drugs when they had actually relieved a placebo?

They reacted to their expectations For longer answer: The participants had reacted on their own expectations of how the drug given to them would affect them.